When it comes to sexual health, public information has tended to focus on the young. Time for a change.
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The annual surveillance report of sexually transmissible infections and blood borne viruses in Australia has found notifications of sexually transmissible infections are on the rise in Australia.
A detailed new review should encourage us to ask some awkward questions.
This French film about upper middle-class teenagers having orgies gets to the heart of teen sex issues in the age of YouTube.
Good sex ed doesn’t lead to early sex, teenage pregnancy and STIs. It protects against them.
The active ingredient in the gel can bind to various viruses and stop them from attaching and getting into human cells.
How a microbe from the ice age could wreck your life – and how to protect yourself.
Scientists are developing various products that can provide contraception and protection from sexually transmitted infections and HIV at the same time.
Our sex lives may change as we get older but those in sexual relationships still want the same things as the young.
In any other industry, protection would be mandatory. But the porn lobby is too powerful.
PrEP drugs to prevent people contracting HIV mustn’t disrupt existing sexual health strategies.
Tackling men’s reluctant condom use comes down to the basics of how they view sex.
STIs might be easier to treat or manage but unprotected sex still comes with potentially serious risks.
Over the past few years we’ve seen a dramatic rise in the rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among Australians aged 60 years and older.
Bacteria qualify as “superbugs” when there are no or few remaining effective antibiotics to kill them.
Older people, and particularly older women, are often thought of as being asexual or sexually undesirable. Although the particular age this is believed to happen varies somewhat in the popular imagination…
Sexuality is a means of pleasure, fulfilment and intimate connection with other humans. But it can also be a source of anguish. So it’s perhaps no surprise that of all the areas in health care, the “STI…
British sexual attitudes have come a long way from the prudish caricature but despite people losing their virginity earlier and the number of older people who are sexually active increasing, we’re having…
Women have a natural bacterium that fights against the most common sexually transmitted infection (STI) in the world, Trichomonas…
If you’ve ever had to wait two agonising weeks for a HIV test result, you’ll be pleased to hear that rapid HIV tests can now give an equally accurate result in just 30 minutes. The problem is, these tests…
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Principal Research Fellow, Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Public Health Ethics, School of Population Health, UNSW
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Associate Professor in Criminology, The University of Melbourne
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Director of POCHE Centre for Indigenous Health, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Adolescent Health, Co-Head of the General Practice Clinical School, University of Sydney
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Honorary Fellow at Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, The University of Melbourne
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PhD candidate and research assistant, Burnet Institute
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Associate Professor in Public Health, University of York
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Research scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Research Fellow, PhD candidate, La Trobe University
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Epidemiologist and Public Health Specialist, National Institute for Communicable Diseases
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PhD Researcher in Ecology, Anglia Ruskin University
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La Trobe University
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Reader in HIV and STI Epidemiology, UCL
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Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health & Society, La Trobe University